clifford bax austin osman spare (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Volume 1, no.1-4, of the literary magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare, bound the publisher's boards. While the boards show a century of wear, they have protected the interior wonderfully, including the original front wrappers of each number and the many lithographs. Bound with no. 4 is the prospectus for Volume 2, announcing the change to a smaller size ('Originally we chose the large page because we wished to give our droughtsmen the best possible conditions. We abandon it now because few people have shelves that are high enough to accommodate folios, and because (according to a well-known authority in the book trade) most people, if a magazine contains large pictures, disregard its literary contents') and offering a defense of the artists and the use of nudes ('It is always the nude that finds people out. Artists often forget that only one person in a thousand can look upon a nude-study as a work of skill and that all the others see it primarily as a challenge to their conceptions of morality'). No 1: 4 pages ads, 1-48, erratum slip between pages 2 and 3; no 2: 4 pages ads, 1-40; no 3: 1-40, advertisement for 'La Grand Ducasse Drolatique, An Apocrypha' by Haydn Mackey, between pages 4 and 5; no 4: Prospectus, 1-40. Wear to the corners and fraying to the head and tail of the spine, with 1 cm tears to the head. 37 x 27 cm. As this is a large book, extra shipping charges may be required.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. A.O.Spare, John Nash, Haydn Mackey, Cecil french, Robert Gibbings, etc. (illustrateur). 1st Edition. The first 4 issues of this short lived quarterly issued literary magazine printed in illustrated textured soft card covers and folio size and dating from the last quarter of 1922 to July 1923. Part 1 has 48 pages + 4 pages of adverts before title and an errata slip, the other 3 have 40 + advert leaf. AND two signed items by Clifford Bax. A single page letter dated 1922 & a signed postcard dated 1923 re. review contributions to the magazine. One a small buff postcard with a short initialed polite thank you for work done on part 4, same recipient. (This card has a 1924 British Empire cancel dated June 20th 1923) The work was overambitious and folded after another 4 smaller format issues with a short break the same year and into 1924. The contributors both literary and artist are eclectic and formidable. Austen O. Spare is prolific throughout and with some outstanding double page plates of tinted lithographs and illustrations + John Nash, + A Garth Jones + Winifred How + Haydn Mackey + E. A. Cox + E. Powys Mathers + Richard Church + Havelock Ellis + Cecil French + article on the Earl of Oxford as Shakespeare + Robert Gibbings + Allan Odle + Jack B. Yeats + Laurence Bradshaw + Aldus Huxley (first printing of; The Ambassador of Capripedia & Albert-Prince Consort) Nora Wright + Vivien Gribble + Warwick Reynolds + Phyllis Mégroz "The Wolf man Of Rouen" + W. H. Davies (poetry) + E. Powys Mathers + Alec Waugh + Herbert Farjeon & Others. Covers clean and fresh as are the contents, stringing to part 3 a little loose. but Very Good+ condition Tall slim folio. 1922-23. Very Art Deco! Signed by Author(s).

[London: July 1924]. 1 volume only (vol. 2, no. 8), tall slim quarto. Original beige cloth-backed boards, titles and designs in beige to black paper-covered board. Numerous monochrome illustrations, including 18 full-page, by Evelyn Waugh, Grace Rogers, Nora Wright, Alfred Warbis, Nora McGuinness, John Austen, and others. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, upper hinge neatly repaired, internally fresh; a very good copy. § First edition, the limited edition being number 30 of 75 copies signed by both Spare and Bax on the front free endpaper. An interesting (and final) volume from a set of eccentric and mildly erotic stories and pictures by well known artists and writers of the day. Single volumes are uncommon and complete sets truly rare.